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1137 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in which French city ?
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1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain in which English cathedral ?
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1609 – The English ship "Sea Venture", en route to Virginia, is driven ashore during a storm to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there. But where ?
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1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of which city promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed ?
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1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of which island ?
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1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across which body of water in a heavier-than-air machine ?
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1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax as a "temporary" measure in which country ?
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1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the army of which country to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal ?
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1961 – Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on which city is an attack on NATO ?
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1965 – Which artist goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music ?
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1978 – Police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders in which overseas territory ?
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1996 – Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya in a military coup in which African country ?
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2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at which airport ?
Paris Charles de Gaulle
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2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium and which other country during the July 2019 European heat wave ?
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1978 – Louise Joy Brown is born in Oldham, UK. What is her claim to fame ?
First winner of "Britains Got Talent"
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First National Lottery Jackpot winner
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First female to be head of the National Union of Miners
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